Replication materials for “Building Support from Below? Subnational Elections, Diffusion Effects, and the Growth of the Opposition in Mexico, 1984-2000,” by Adrián Lucardi. Comparative Political Studies, 49(14), 2016, 1855-1895.


The folder contains THREE DATASETS:

Mexico Municipal elections 1984-2000.dta	List of municipal elections. The unit of observation is the municipality-year. Only municipality years with elections are included. Observations from the Distrito Federal (DF, the capital city) and Oaxacan municipalities that employ “Usos y Costumbres” system have been excluded.

Mexico Municipal elections 1984-2000.dta	List of federal elections (for national deputy) disaggregated at the municipal level. The unit of observation is the municipality-year. There are four election years: 1991, 1994, 1997 and 2000. Observations from the Distrito Federal (DF, the capital city) and Oaxacan municipalities that employ “Usos y Costumbres” system have been excluded.

Mexico Municipal data 1984-2000.dta		List of municipality-years. Every municipality appears once per year, even if there has been no election during that year. In non-election years, the “winner” and “vote share” variables reflect the values from the last election that took place in that municipality. Observations from the Distrito Federal (DF, the capital city) and Oaxacan municipalities that employ “Usos y Costumbres” system have been excluded.

The “Maps” folder contains the shapefiles of Mexico’s states and municipalities. These are needed to replicate Figures 2 and 3. Note that in the case of Mexico’s municipalities, a different shapefile is needed for (almost) each year, because some municipalities were split to create new ones.

There are TWO REPLICATION FILES:

Code Figures.R		Contains R code to replicate Figure 1.
Code Tables.R		Contains R code to replicate Tables 2-4 in the text as well as Tables A1-A2 in the Online Appendix and exporting them to LaTeX. The file also provides the code used to calculate the effect sizes discussed in the text.

Data for replicating Figures 2 and 3 could not be uploaded because the shapefiles took too much space (approx. 450 MB, when the maximum allowed was 300 MB). However, interested readers can request the complete replication data and code at adrianlucardi@gmail.com.




